Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gaines

We want to provide a forum for people working within city and county governments to see what's new in the sustainable movement, and give them tools to achieve their goals of building sustainable projects in their own communities. We'll also have case studies and dialogue sessions where private developers can talk to local government officials about their concerns.

Mohammed Dahlan

We want to protect what we achieved at Camp David, we don't want to waste those discussions.

Karen Harris

We have seen a huge gain in our (Illinois Standards Achievement Test) scores just because of these kids who have role models and good behaviors skills. Overall the students have helped the whole building.

Jose Torres

What these guys are doing out there is something that maybe 1 or 2 percent of the extreme sports fanatics can actually achieve to get out there in 18-foot waves? It's crazy.

Howard Simon

What the Registered Traveler achieves is convenience for some but at the expense of security for all. It's a false sense of security.

John Robertson

What the president is effectively saying is that the economy will this year grow by over 35%, from a negative of 35% in the past seven years, which is not possible. You cannot achieve growth where there is no investment.

Travis Bradberry

When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Jack O'Connell

The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,

Khalil Gibran

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Alan Shearer

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that

Brent Wilkes

The fact that Latinos are underrepresented in the service causes us concern because the service is often a way to the middle class for many immigrants. If you don't have a lot of options, would you rather go into the service and get a middle-class career, or stay in the fields all these years?

Nouriel Roubini

There is definitely a big split in Europe at the moment. Europe is getting leaner and meaner, but that causes nervousness at the household level.

Thomas Woods

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'

David Allen

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Charles Taylor

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Daryl Gross

We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.

Delores Killette

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Tom Frazier

We want to see a strong public role in administering and managing the system. If the counties would wash their hands of it and say, 'We're turning it over,' we would have some large concerns.

Rich Ackermann

We use it for monitoring individual applications, enabling us to improve problem resolution for users who are reporting problems and efficiently identify the root cause.

Nick Woodman

The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it's snowballing.

Bruce Dickinson

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

Gerard Kennedy

While I did not seek it, I now see the need for that kind of enabling leadership in the renewal of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Ron Miles

We all do things for people we love and that's OK. But if you're doing it consistently and all the time, you're enabling them not to be responsible.

Douglas Adams

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

Brian Arbogast

Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry.

Richard Robinson

This has been a stellar quarter and year for Scholastic, enabling us to exceed our revenue and profit goals.

Jeff Halpern

You get a guy like that, he's going to score 25, 30, 35 goals. It will be interesting to see if the game opens up without the red line enabling him to use his speed. I don't know what Bonzai is going to do. He's been a fan favorite for so many years. It would be great for the fans to see him come back.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Chris Gabrieli

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Andrew Friedman

He's been invaluable in our discussions and our planning going forward, and the working relationship has been outstanding.

Rich Rodriguez

He understands everything we're trying to do. He's invaluable to us, more so for his leadership than anything else.

Timothy Dean

Our students won't simply be placed at the back of a section. They'll be right in the middle of the action, near the front. It will give them invaluable experience.

Steve Sampson

(Cronin) got invaluable playing time tonight and I thought he played very well for his debut.

Ron Rivera

It's an invaluable time for him because he can learn so much. It's a little disappointing we didn't get the job done.

Keith Reynolds

You never feel like you're really ready for this until it happens. Preparing for a big to-do like this is an invaluable experience.

Patrick Cox

It's really an invaluable natural resource. We wanted to make sure it's in a protected state.

Daniele Audetto

They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect.

Edmund Burke

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Elias Canetti

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

John Armstrong

Much had he read, Much more had seen; he studied from the life, and in th' original perus'd mankind

Aristotle

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,